{"id":17300,"date":"2021-01-21T13:05:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T21:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=17300"},"modified":"2021-01-21T13:05:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T21:05:51","slug":"book-testament-of-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/01\/21\/book-testament-of-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: \u201cTESTAMENT OF YOUTH\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1390091385l\/374388.jpg\" alt=\"Testament of Youth\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"bookTitle\">Testament of Youth<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/213527.Vera_Brittain\">Vera Brittain<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/81960.Mark_Bostridge\">Mark Bostridge<\/a>&nbsp;(Introduction)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain\u2019s elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a nurse in the armed services, Brittain served in London, in Malta, and on the Western Front. By war\u2019s end she had lost virtually everyone she loved.&nbsp;<em>Testament of Youth<\/em>&nbsp;is both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation. Hailed by the&nbsp;<em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em>&nbsp;as a book that helped \u201cboth form and define the mood of its time,\u201d it speaks to any generation that has been irrevocably changed by war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testament of Youth by&nbsp;Vera Brittain,&nbsp;Mark Bostridge&nbsp;(Introduction)&nbsp; Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain\u2019s elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/01\/21\/book-testament-of-youth\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17301,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17300\/revisions\/17301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}